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This is when I had the worst of the Dengi Fever! It sucked so bad!
Especially the not being able to shower cuz I STUNKKKKK!! |
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What was the worst part: nausea, vomiting, fever, painful joints or itchy rash?
It allllllllllll sucked..... depending on the time. Sometimes the itch was worse but the pain was horrible.... not so much the sick part though cuz that wasn't that bad.....just one or two days maybe. |
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| This was my district back in Popua. We were all white kids from America and two Tongan Sisters haha but it was awesome! I got really close to the Elders in that district. Elder Harris who I came in with was in it so we were alllllllways talking about times in the MTC haha! |
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This pizza place is wayyyy good!!
Surprised me for Tonga how good their pizza places are haha! |
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| Elder Haleki with a guy that came up (possibly drunk) and started dancing around to the music coming from the pizza place we were eating at! |
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| Ok you need to look closely at the picture..... we were watching a movie about Joseph Smith and then it shows Peter, James, and John restoring the priesthood and it did a close up on Peter, or as I see him WILL FERRELL!!!! You cannot tell me this does not look like Will Ferrell! Surprised us seeing him in a church movie!! haha JK |
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| Can you believe this new change in uniform for all the missionaries??? |
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| Haha just kidding! That would be weird! The sisters before us left these in our house so we tried on the sisters uniform haha! It fit us pretty good not going to lie!!!! haha But I wouldn't like wearing that all the time!! So glad I get to wear my white shirt and tie haha! |
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I shaved my legs.......................................................... The one thing I made fun of
people in the MTC for doing and promised myself I would never do! |
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| ....but it feeeeelllsss good hahaha! I just trimmed them with the back end of my razor but they still feel somewhat smooth! it was something that took me a looootttttt of thinking to do haha but my comp convinced me that it isn't gay in Tonga sooooo I did it.... haha NO HOMO. |
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| We started teaching one kid this week named Jordan, or we just call him Tani. He is 16 and his dad was LDS and died. His mom remarried to a man from another religion so she hasn't been back but wants her sons to be in the church their dad was so his older brother got baptized last month and we are planning to hopefully baptize him next week if he is able to stop smoking and drinking... So this picture is kinda pointless but I found this candle in the road and brought it home to light it.... just for fun haha still a little pyro I know..... |
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| Tongan Caviar!!!!! |
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| ...or just papaya seeds haha! This new area (Vaotu'u) is all in the bush. That's what the name means, Vao means bush and Tu'u means to stand or be in. I am still not a fan of mangoes, papaya, coconut, lu(the meat cooked in taro leaves) but I try hard to eat them haha especially at members houses! This is studying language one night before bed! It seems like all I study now is Tongan haha. It's slowly improving and I mean SLLLLOOOWWWWWLLLLYYYYY improving haha but it will get there! |
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| "Big" gecko that Elder Montenegro found in our house! I still don't like touching slimy things or letting things crawl on me so ya I didn't hold it.... haha. |
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| So this was our first day in Vaotu'u! We moved into our house at like 3-4 o'clock that night and found out we are staying next to our Stake President.... gotta be on good behavior right??? haha as always I promise :) But his wife made us dinner. It was so good! It was pasta with sauce and chicken, garlic bread, grilled fish, and taro so it was way good! The sisters who stayed here before us had a birthday or something before they left haha. Funny thing is with the sign they spelled HAPPY BIRTHTAY not birthday haha! Them FOB Tongans haha. (What's FOB? It's an acronym for Fresh Off the Boat.... like I speak FOB Tongan haha. People here speak FOB English mostly cuz they don't have much experience.) |
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| The next day we had a district meeting and met our new district.. Sisters alllllways ask the palangis if they have a camera then take like 30 pictures so here is one with Sister 'Asa haha! Our district is 4 Elders and 4 Sisters, and we are the only Palangis haha. Nothing new for me! We have a lot of time cuz our area is so small So I have started studying language like CRAZY!!!!!! Still not getting better but I won't give up I promise haha ;) |
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| So Wednesday we went to our fafanga and it turns out it was my old comp, Elder Neiufi's family! The made pizzas but it was like a cinnamon dough with weird stuff on it but I ate it! Mom I might come home eating veggie pizza with you!!! Gross huh!?!? haha just kidding but I have gotten a lot more of a variety of foods in me since I have been out so not ruling out anything! |
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| This bird Haleki caught in our window in Fasi by throwing orange peels out to it. |
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| Us eating lunch one day with the sisters in thehome of the first counselor to the Mission President. |
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| New Area |
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This is the one Nativity mom. I don't know how much it is or how well it would travel in my suitcase haha but I hopefully can get my hands on the other coconut one!!!!
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Anyways this week was good... just getting to know our new area! The people are really nice and ALWAYS make sure we are fed good! I really like working here and I think we will be able to help God's Kingdom grow here in Vaotu'u! The struggle here is that people get offended and just stop coming to church so we have started working on reactivation with the members... Sunday they do the 2 class periods first and then sacrament so when we saw not too many members there we went out to all the members houses we knew and started knocking doors and inviting them to come! Got 3 families out by doing that so that might be something we have to do every week haha but I am loving it here! So there are these things called Blowholes just in the next village over so we are going to go see those today for P-day. I will explain them next week with pictures! Love you all tons!!!
Elder Huntsman
